[powerdot] Re: powerdot vs latex-beamer


On May 25, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Władysław Tomaszewicz wrote:
I'm not looking for lengthy input because I could always just evaluate 
both classes. I'm just wondering if there is an obvious reason to use
one or the other.

Thanks a lot,

  Julian Dibbelt





Hi Julian,

IMHO the more essential difference between the classes is as follows:

Beamer accepts two ways of compiling source files:

1. LATEX => DVI => PS => PDF (using LaTeX, Ghostscript and Ps2Pdf),
2. LATEX => PDF (using PDFLaTeX),

whereas Powerdot accepts only first way. So, if you want directly
include, e.g., *.jpeg pictures into presentation, you should use Beamer.
On the other hand, if you want to take advantage of the power of pstricks, you need to use option 1, with either of powerdot or beamer. 

I, like probably most people on this list, am partial to powerdot :-)
My personal take is that powerdot gets things done in a clear way.
Beamer seems to allow for a thousand different ways to do things (and its manual is a big put-off, at over 400 pages).
But in the end I think you already know the right thing to do: try them both and see what is best for you. 

Luis Sequeira

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